10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEFINNED»
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befinned in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
befinned and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Elements of Heraldry ... To which is annexed a ...
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Marc Antoine PORNY (pseud. [i.e. Antoine Pyron du Martre.]), 1777
2
Borders and Bridges: A History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
The situation became so desperate that U.S. troops were sent to rescue Nixon
and his group, but before they arrived, "Nixon's driver. . .gunned his befinned
Cadillac over the highway's median and raced down the wrong side of the road
to the ...
3
America's First Network TV Censor: The Work of NBC's ...
female mammaries, these befinned, swollen, gas-guzzlers were also enduring
metaphors of industrial abundance, material waste, and sexual fixation that
characterized the age. 76. NBC CART, 7 May 1959, folder 5, box 153, NBC Files.
77.
4
Auto-Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design
The sky now belonged to the Soviets, and the befinned automobiles that
promised to take consumers there seemed silly and indulgent. Editorials chided
Americans for being more concerned with their creature comforts than the
defense of the ...
5
The High Priest of Prickly Bog
... feeling better.” After all she did not know this man. How intimate could she
allow herself to be? “Oh, I'm feeling better already,” he replied. He did not know
yet, this game of communication. But as she pulled the befinned conveyance,
gravel ...
6
Nature of the Beast: Humans, Animals, and Society in ...
The seventeenth century was an era of transformation for the inhabitants of
Britain, the four-footed, feathered, and befinned ones as well as those on two
legs. As the nobility and gentry sought to reaffirm their authority in the changing
social ...
7
Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir
She writes at length about the popular position of cars at that time, the way “the
lunkers, the dreamboats, the befinned, bechromed, behemoths . . . lurked in the
driveways of several million brand new ranch houses in the suburbs” and how, ...
Every animal she'd ever seenhad been befinned, betentacled, bepincered or,on
one memorable creature, allthree. Her imagination couldn't manage “fur,”
nevermind theother aspects. While she'd been distracting herself thinking about
the ...
embarrassing about America's automobiles of the 1950s: the lunkers, the
dreamboats, the befinned, bechromed behemoths that lurked in the driveways of
several million brand new ranch houses in the suburbs (because they wouldn't fit
in the ...
10
The Gothic World of Stephen King: Landscape of Nightmares
Her sweeping, befinned chassis evokes the fantasy of a fifties golden age: a
horizonless future projected in a perpetually expanding network of
superhighways and an unlimited fuel supply. Christine seduces by recovering
what seems like a ...
Gary Hoppenstand, Ray Broadus Browne, 1987
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEFINNED»
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befinned is used in the context of the following news items.
1949 Cadillac Sedanette is your personal P-38 Lightning
We'll see -- but either way, you won't go wrong by heading over to eBay Motors and casting a bid for this befinned beauty right this very instant. «Autoweek, Feb 15»
Iphigénie En Tauride review (City Recital Hall, Sydney)
Like Hulcup, Doyle, a baritone, has a big voice and, like a hulking V8 in an old school, wide-tracked, gas-guzzling, befinned American car, one ... «Daily Review, Dec 14»
Spotting a classic much rarer than a Ferrari at a local car show
There was a Vauxhall Monaro that had been rebodied as a two-door, befinned 1950s Vauxhall Cresta - an amazing piece of home-engineering ... «Autocar, Aug 14»
2014 Fiat 500 1957 Edition
In the U.S., a '57 reference pretty much gets you a Chevy—the befinned conclusion to the tri-five run of family cars that made the small-block V-8 famous. It might ... «Car and Driver, Jul 14»
Grunion Run: A SoCal Spectacular Opens
... nope, they don't have tiny leg-type appendages, like some ocean dwellers that make for terra firma to lay eggs (they are befinned, let us note) ... «NBC Bay Area, Mar 14»
Lean new Caddy now runs at the front of the sports-sedan pack
The befinned, block-long Caddies of my youth — resplendent in fat whitewalls and fender skirts — hummed like glossy respirators. And why not ... «Dallas Morning News, Feb 14»
Yuval Levin's 'Great Debate,' and More
The trip takes us from an idyllic '50s childhood of coonskin caps and befinned Buicks, through the drug-addled '60s down to the present. At its ... «New York Times, Jan 14»
Riding in the Car of the Future, Built in an Illinois Barn
It also does a verified 130 mph, seats four six-footers, and can fit a golf bag in its befinned trunk. For comparison, Volkswagen's two-seater XL1, ... «Gizmodo India, Jan 14»
Mercedes-Benz Shooting Brake: flash family tourer
Previous examples include the Volvo 1800ES (the later wagon version of the befinned car driven by “The Saint" in the 1960s television series) ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jun 13»
My Way on the Highway
This runs from the modest (the Model T, the VW Beetle, the Honda) to the wretchedly excessive (rococoly befinned Cadillacs of the 1950s, ... «Wall Street Journal, May 12»
